Nature

Scientists have found that adult jackdaws can learn to be more socially tolerant toward youngsters.This post was originally published on this site

A secret ingredient in snail trails is helping the pests save themselves from poisons spread to protect farms and gardens across Australia.This post was originally published on this site

Invertebrates, including insects, are poorly represented on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List. The Red List, the world’s most comprehensive information source on global conservation status, is dominated by better-known vertebrates, […]

Florida is plagued by invasive creatures, but it’s the native rainbow snake that state officials are asking people to report on sight.This post was originally published on this site

As summer heats up and tourists flock to the California coast, beachgoers should be on the lookout for sea lions sickened by a recent outbreak of leptospirosis—a kidney disease that can result in severe symptoms […]

Despite growing concern about biodiversity loss due to the ongoing biodiversity and climate crises, scientists have relatively little understanding of the pace and complexity of biodiversity change over the preceding millennia.This post was originally published […]

The British evolutionary biologist JBS Haldane is said to have quipped that any divine being evidently had “an ordinate fondness for beetles.” This “bon mot” conveyed an important truth: the “tree of life”—the family tree […]

A series of hide-and-seek experiments with a bonobo named Kanzi shows for the first time that apes can mentally keep track of multiple familiar humans at once, even when they are out of sight.This post […]

Oak gall wasps and their predators don’t have the panache of butterflies, but they’re attracting growing interest among both scientists and naturalists.This post was originally published on this site

In 1770, after Captain Cook’s Endeavor struck the Great Barrier Reef and was held up for repairs, botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander collected hundreds of plants.This post was originally published on this site